The Kitchen in the Cellar

The Kitchen in the Cellar, a recipe for reinvention is a cookbook memoir filled with over 100 seasonally inspired, wine-friendly dishes for every day cooking woven into ten adventurous vignettes. As co-owner and chef of Narrow Gate Vineyards, located in the El Dorado appellation of the Sierra Foothills of Northern California, Hildebrand shares the creative recipes and wine pairings she's made and served over a 15-year span for thousands of her winery guests, friends and family. The...
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The Kitchen in the Cellar, a recipe for reinvention is a cookbook memoir filled with over 100 seasonally inspired, wine-friendly dishes for every day cooking woven into ten adventurous vignettes. As co-owner and chef of Narrow Gate Vineyards, located in the El Dorado appellation of the Sierra Foothills of Northern California, Hildebrand shares the creative recipes and wine pairings she's made and served over a 15-year span for thousands of her winery guests, friends and family. The vignettes tell of her and her husband's adventurous journey of pursuing a financially impossible dream to plant a vineyard and build a winery, and the miracles that made it become reality. Her recipe for reinvention unfolds through moving stories of their leap of faith from fashion to wine and city life to country life, while maneuvering through a constant maize of seemingly impossible-to-overcome obstacles. She weaves in her personal culinary journey, which began at age nine and was first inspired by Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet. Forty-five years later she meets him in his kitchen and now writes about how his influence in her life today goes far beyond food and wine.Hers is a story of food, faith, and never giving up on dreams.